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Paul and First-Century Letter Writing: Secretaries, Composition and Collection

Paul and First-Century Letter Writing: Secretaries, Composition and Collection

Richards, E. Randolph

Paperback

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 0830827889
ISBN13: 9780830827886
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: Oct 22 2004
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.46 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Traditional Christian art depicts Paul the letter writer, pen in hand, attentive to the Spirit. We might think we know better and imagine him pacing in agitation as he rapidly dictates to a secretary his letter to the Galatians. But in reality neither of these pictures is accurate.

In Paul's day, producing a letter was a time-consuming and costly business. And we have ample resources from the ancient world to piece together what it must have been like. A secretary was usually part of the picture. But so were notes, drafts, corrections and careful rewrites, not to speak of scratchy pens, sooty ink and coarse papyrus. Interestingly, there is evidence that Paul involved his missionary team in the writing of letters. And then came thedelivery over land and sea, the reading and circulation, as well as the epistolary afterlife of copying, collecting and storing.

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